The healing of the emaciated man from Capernaum, a lesson about friendship: PS Timotei Prahoveanul at the Chapel of the National Cathedraltranslated

The healing of the emaciated man from Capernaum offers us a lesson about friendship, emphasized the Most Reverend Father Timotei Prahoveanul, Vicar Bishop of the Archdiocese of Bucharest, on Sunday, at the summer consecration of the Chapel of the National Cathedral.

"If at the Vitezda bath we meet a man in bitter loneliness, this time we notice that there were four men who left everything of theirs - family, concerns, obligations - and accompanied this paralytic to the Saviour", explained His Eminence.

The hierarch emphasized that the four men who brought the sick man to the Savior Jesus Christ "constituted a real treasure for the paralyzed man."

Let's have friends better than us PS Timotei Prahoveanul officiated Sunday, July 12, 2026, Holy Liturgy at the summer dedication of the Chapel of the National Cathedral. Photo: Lumina newspaper / Luigi Ivanciu "The Fathers of the Church exhort us to have better friends than ourselves," continued His Holiness Father Timotei Prahoveanul.

"If we are unfulfilling the commandments of God, good friends should remind us of these commands. If we do not fulfill the works of Christian mercy and love, we have...